eMobile/eAccess have been acquired by SoftBank and are now part of the SoftBank Group. Merger of Willcom into eMobile has been announced. Read this report to understand the eAccess/eMobile part of the SoftBank Group.

eAccess is a great success story among Japanese venture startups. eAccess was founded by the legendary serial entrepreneur Dr Sachio Semmoto in 1999 as an ADSL broadband fixed line access provider. Later he founded eMobile as a subsidiary of eAccess, brought eAccess to IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Growth of the mobile subsidiary eMobile exceeded expectations.

While Masayoshi Son was negotiating the SPRINT acquisition in the United States during 2012, he suddenly heard that KDDI was in negotiations to acquire eAccess. Masayoshi Son moved faster than KDDI, and closed the deal to acquire eAccess faster then his competitor. Today eAccess is part of the SoftBank Group, but via a complex shareholding structure (explained in this report in detail), eAccess retains a certain amount of independence from the SoftBank Group.

Plans are to merge Willcom with eAccess, and plans are discussed for Yahoo! KK (Yahoo-Japan) to create a virtual mobile operator Y!Mobile in cooperation with eAccess. Read this report to understand the growth of some of the most successful Japanese venture startups, from foundation to acquisition by the SoftBank Group.

value proposition to different user segments, how eMobile attracts customerscompetitive analysis for wireless data services in the startup phasethe main competitors in the startup phaseMVNO business, virtual operator business

eMobile - spectrum license and base stations

spectrum allocation and base station deployment in the 1.8 GHz regioneMobile base stations and networkbase station and network manufacturers vendors by geographical regionhow many base station does eMobile have deployed? graphical data since start of network, and comparison to competitorshow many base station does eMobile install per month? graphical data since start of networkhow many boosters does eMobile have installed? graphics since start of network and comparison to competitorshow many low power repeaters does eMobile have installed? graphics since start of network and comparison to competitors

eMobile - LTE

evolution of radio technology and download data rates since start of operations: March 31, 2007

eMobile - handsets and terminals

terminal strategy at start of operations

eAccess - ADSL broad band fixnet access

overview of Japan's broadband marketsgraphics of Japan's subscription numbers for FTTH, DSL, CATV since 2002DSL subscription numbers for the main market participants since 2006DSL market shares for the main market participants since 2006AOL

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